Westminster Police Jail

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The Westminster Police Jail is located at 8200 Westminster Boulevard in Westminster, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Westminster Police Department.

This site will tell you info about everything a person needs to know about the Westminster Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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5. What Are the Visitation Hours for Westminster Police Jail
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Westminster Police Jail
7. Westminster Police Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Westminster Police Jail
10. How to Search Orange County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that could help others would be appreciated.

Westminster Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Westminster Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find the same information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Westminster Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Westminster Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged may take from 30 minutes to many hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will be released. Also, it will depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if the judge has to figure out your bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Westminster Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to list each visitor’s name to the Westminster Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Westminster Police Jail frequently change, so make sure that you call the jail at 714-898-3315 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Westminster Police Jail you have to have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Westminster Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Westminster Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Westminster Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Westminster Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Westminster Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant, you can check court records on the Orange County jail website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Orange County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records online, or at the Orange County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail is likely to change, so you should double check the Westminster Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Westminster Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Westminster Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 714-898-3315 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Westminster Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

All phone calls from the Westminster Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden.

Phone Number: 714-898-3315

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all phone calls that inmates make are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Westminster Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Westminster Police Jail, click the link below.

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